sudo: must be setuid root

[tom quach_1]

Hi All,

have anyone seen this message before.
i've setup and used sudo for my test and production for 2 years now.
suddenly, on my test server (HP-UX 11.11)
the sudo does not work anymore. tried to compare with my production but could not figure it out what was wrong?
the sudoers permission is correct, compared with production.

this was the error
$sudo cancel hp5000-862
sudo: must be setuid root

thank in advance for your help.
Tom

[Yogeeraj_1]

Hi tom,

can you verify your $PATH?

If you have '.' in your $PATH before the directory containing sudo, this problem can also arise..

please check

kind regards
yogeeraj

[Dennis Handly · Accepted solution]

Can you list the permissions on sudo?
It probably should look something like this:
-rwsr-xr-x root bin

[tom quach_1]

Thank you Dennis and Yogeerai,

the permission was -rwxr-xr-x on
/usr/local/bin/sudo
changed it to
-rwsr-xr-x root bin
and it works
on my production the permission is
---s--x--x on /usr/local/bin/sudo

Thanks again for your help.
Regards,
Tom

[tom quach_1]

Thank you!

[Dennis Handly]

---s--x--x is probably fine for real paranoid admins. :-)
But there is no reason not to let root read it.